A man forcibly took a 15-year-old girl from barangay Poblacion in Carmen yesterday dawn when she and her two companions failed to give him the cellular phones he demanded from them at gunpoint.
The girl, who went to the Carmen Police station later in the morning, narrated that she and her companions, another girl and a boy, were on their way home from the carnival, which has been held onward to the town fiesta on August 28.
Along their way, however, a man on a motorcycle stopped and aimed at them a .38 caliber revolver then declared a hold up.
The robber repeatedly demanded for their cell phones but they insisted and explained that they had no cell phones at all.
This prompted the robber to demand that the 15-year-old girl that ride with him instead. He told her to take the back seat, hold his waist tightly and never to look at the road as they travel.
The girl, apparently scared, obliged what she was told to do, keeping her eyes closed as the robber drove the motorcycle while threatening her life if she defied.
“Nagtuyok-tuyok ra man mi unya wa ko kabalo kon unsa na tong lugarakay di man ko niya patan-awon sa karsada, busa nagpiyong ra ko, wa man nuon ko niya hilabti,” the girl told the police.
The girl’s “travel” went on for hours and finally she was able to convince the robber to take her home instead because she has nothing to give him at all. The robber gave in and dropped her in a dark place near her home in the town’s poblacion.
The motive of the robber for that “joyride” could not be ascertained yet but PO3 Rolen Piscalya, of the Carmen Police station, said the man might have just wanted to rob the girl, and not to abduct her.
Piscalya added that the robber might just wanted to scare the girl so that she would not report the incident to the police. — Flor Z. Perolina/RAE